Secondhand Clothing Quotes

Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-and-bone man ever called at their houses. The truth of the matter was that in less than a week I was well dressed from head to foot, all of these things being voluntary offerings, when in quest of eatables.

I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

I like vintage clothes, a lot of '80s band shirts. I wear a lot of my boyfriend's clothes, too.

I shop at thrift stores and consignment shoppes. I wear my clothes as is, and maybe get them dry cleaned whenever possible.

It's easy to just go out and buy a $200 piece of clothing. The real challenge is finding it for half that.

Like now what Urban Outfitters has become is very much how I always dressed in high school by going to garage sales and getting stuff for 50 cents. Cost a little more now, to look like crap.

All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.

I honestly kind of hate shopping. My favorite places to shop are rich old lady consignment stores.

I like What Goes Around Comes Around for old concert tees. Oh man, I got this 'Sgt. Pepper' cartoon Beatles shirt there; it was, like, $300. I didn't even know how much it cost - I thought it was gonna be, like, $80 at most - till I got to the register and was like, 'Oh mah gawd!' Good Lord. But it's classic vintage rock, you know?

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

I'm still wearing Target and hand-me-downs.

My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill.

Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.

I've never had someone pick outfits for me. Almost everything I get is from Goodwill.

My go-to jeans are old Levi's I've gotten from boyfriends; they're worn-in and really yummy and perfect.

No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money.

I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.

Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.

I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'

Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it, like, as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers, and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we, like, just send each other packages.

I don't look very much at magazines or go to vintage stores.

I actually love shopping in vintage shops. What I do with the high street, I buy it, then keep it for a while and then wear it when everyone's not wearing it. So I do that: stock up, then keep it hidden!

I've always been kind of deep into thrifting and secondhand clothing.

I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.